Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Using Strauss music throughout, The Great Waltz dramatizes the son's ambition and despair before the great night at Dommayer's, his suspicions of his father's jealousy, his waverings between music and marriage, and ends at Dommayer's with the father proudly waltzing to his son's and successor's music. The plot is intelligent, simple and reasonably true to history. The music has been spared the usual interpolations and "improvements." A chorus of 100. a ballet of 40, an orchestra of 54 supply background for the theme...
...Business must expand. . .If managers on whom employment of both labor and capital depends are continuously disturbed by maladjustments and uncertainties resulting from constantly changing rules and regulations, all of us--labor, capital, managers and the great professional and service groups alike--may in despair look back on today as a time of prosperity and security...
...longer despair, having taught the boys at least to buy a hat and keep it on the floor for fancy weekends. To be sure, brown hats don't soil as fast as gray. The Paris Garter people are launching with a wry smile their million-dollar "Attack on the barbarous challenge of nudism...
Nonetheless the new Textile Board did not despair of success, for conditions had changed during the first seven days of the strike. Mr. Gorman had won a number of successes and was more ready to make peace. Said he: "We have demonstrated that we can stop the wheels of the textile industry. . . . The mills are closed. We can keep them closed indefinitely...
...shades, gingham dresses. Demonstration classes in French, stenography, music appreciation, beauty culture, etiquette and Budgeting the Family Income chattered and squirmed in the centre of each floor. Behind exhibits and pupils lay the stories of some 75,000 men and wo- men stranded by Depression and floated off poverty, despair or boredom by a movement which has become one of the most significant phenomena of the past decade...